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The crisis in Iraq continues to worsen. The militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also referred to as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has taken the city of Mosul, in the Sunni-dominated northern area of the country, and are headed south. But the Iraqi Kurds, based in their own semi-autonomous region in the northeast of the country, have taken the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, Reuters reports.